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ROMAN PERSONAL NAMES IN CORINTHIA<br />

260. ΦΛΑΒΙΑΝΟΣ (I)<br />

[1] * Kritzas, "Πετρί Νεμέας", 398-413, in particular 399, epigram A, 1. 3 (AnnÉpigr 1992,<br />

1548) [end of the 2nd/beginning of the 3rd c. A.D.].<br />

Corinthia, Nemea: Petri; sandstone slab recording an epigram in honour of his wife Σαλβία.<br />

Θεσσαλλικόν βλάστημα τό Πηλέος Αίακίδαο<br />

Σαλβία, ην Έφύρης εκ ποτέ σευάμενος<br />

Φλαβιανός, πολλοίσι συν ϊπποις ήμιόνοις τε,<br />

εύρύχορον Πέλοπος νήσον έσηγάγετο.<br />

5 Υίήων στεφάνωι έπ' άμύμονι θήσει, υιέ,<br />

δώματος εύδόξου ρύτορα καί κτεάνων,<br />

δώμητορ χώροιο. Πόσις δ'έμός έξενέπει τοι<br />

οππως αίμα φίλον νωΐτερον τελέθεις.<br />

Δη γάρ σοι καί τόσσον άγαλλόμεθ', οττι πατρώου<br />

10 ημβροτες ούδ' ολίγον κύδεος εν βιότω.<br />

[2] * Kritzas, op. cit, in particular 400, epigram B, 1. 1 (AnnÉpigr 1992, 1549) [end of the 2nd/<br />

beginning of the 3rd c. A.D.].<br />

Corinthia, Nemea: Pefri; sandstone slab recording an epigram in honour of him and of his<br />

descendants; here: Φλαβιαν[—].<br />

Φλαβιαν[- - -]I[- - -ca. 1- - -]EN[- - -ca. Ί- - -]ΔΡΩΝ<br />

Φλ[α]βιανός σαόφρων, Ξειναγόρης [- - ca. 5- -]ός·<br />

Φλαβιανός μεν έτικτε Μένανδρον, Ξειναγόρης δε<br />

Φλαβιανήν. Τοιιν δ'έρνος 'Αριστομένης.<br />

5 Αύταρ Άριστομένει όμοώνυμος έπλετο πατρί<br />

υιός, οτις τρίτατον τίκτεν 'Αριστομένη.<br />

Του τάδε έργα τέτυκται, έπεί σκύμνον φάτις εστίν<br />

λείοντος κρατεροϋ καρτερόν έξιέναι-<br />

Ηρώδης μοΰνός μοι Ισον κλέος ήρατ'Άχαιών,<br />

10 οσσον καί μορφής εϊδεϊ συμφέρεται.<br />

Remarks: The two epigrams complete each other as [2] gives the genealogy announced by [1];<br />

both belonged to a monument set up by an 'Αριστομένης, a sixth-generation<br />

descendant of the person, in honour of his ancestors. The person was a rich<br />

Corinthian landowner maried with Σαλβία (COR 493), a woman of Thessalian<br />

origin. Kritzas suggests that his family must have had connections with many men<br />

of letters, such as the philosophers Ti. Flavius Arrianus (COR 264) and Epictetus,<br />

and with wealthy families like the Gellii and that of the Athenian rhetor and senator<br />

Tib. Claudius Herodes Atticus (COR 174), as reference to the name of this last one<br />

in [2,1. 9] illustrates. For the family see also Settipani, 477-479.<br />

h. of Σαλβία (COR 545); f. of Φλαβιανός (II) (COR 261); grandi, of Φλαβιανή (COR 259). For<br />

a more complete stemma also including the members of his family attested with Greek names,<br />

see Kritzas, op. cit., 402 and Settipani, 479.<br />

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